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Biography

Ronald Tolkien was born of English parents at Bloemfontein in the independent Orange Free State, where his father worked in a bank. When he…more

Born

Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, in southern Africa

Birth Name

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Gender

Male

Credits

Guest Star (1)

Role
- Omnibus (UK)
  Himself (on video)
  - S 35: Ep 20 JRR Tolkien: Master Of Middle Earth
    12/22/01
Story (1)

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- Jackanory
  Story
  - S 1: Ep 19 The Hobbit
    1/15/79

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- Tolkien, wary of the idea of any film adaptation of his works, sold the film, stage, and merchandise rights of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to United Artists in 1968, and forbade the Disney studios, whose works he loathed, from ever getting involved in future productions. UA ended up never making a movie.
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- Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, is credited with helping to convert C.S. Lewis, a former atheist, to Christianity, but was disappointed when Lewis chose Anglicanism over Catholicism.
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- Tolkien was a good friend of another Oxford don who taught English literature and wrote books for children, C.S. Lewis, who wrote of him - "At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist, and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both."
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- J.R.R. Tolkien: I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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- J.R.R. Tolkien: Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.
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- J.R.R. Tolkien: The news today about Atomic bombs is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'.
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